Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, however, turned in what may be the top collegiate athletic performance of the year when it nosed out the top crews in the nation to become America's eight-man rowing representative in Australia this winter.
For nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own...
At 1:31, only 15 minutes from Idlewild and within sight of the brilliant lights of Manhattan, the Constellation burst into orange fire. It lurched sharp to the right, held steady for ten seconds, swerved sharply right again. Then it nosed, plunged 8,000 ft. to the sea, exploded.
Also absent from the edited dialogue was the voice of an unnamed delegate shouting from the hall, "Why didn't you kill him?" and Khrushchev's reply: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." No mention was made, either, of the fact that, at Stalin...
SecurityMeasures.Gangling,sharp-nosed Reporter Wally Turner, 35, and his partner, thick-spectacled Bill Lambert, 36, are such familiar prowlers along Portland's corrupt trails that the underworld knows them as "Fishface and Bugeyes." The latest trail took them over thousands of feet of magnetic tape-70 hours of eavesdropped...